BRAVO! Nice job Bill...One of my favorite tunes(probably in my top five)...Long or short? either way is fine by me. I dig the acoustic version on Reckoning...Be interesting to hear you play it that way.Anyway thanks again for ALL of your posts

I just love this one. The bulk of the tune with minor scale/tone emphasis as you make your way through I'll call it despair and utter surrender to the transition w/ the Am to A7, the A7 pointing toward and then resolving to the D maj (Take up your China Doll...) instead of the D minor as it had before, where the major scale beakons toward hope or light at the end of the tunnel - gives me the chills. Then to follow through with the D-G-D major scale jam where hope shines.

Damn - I'm gettin all sappy.

Anyway, here's my take on the intro - disclaimer: this w/o really sitting down and disecting jg's

yes! I'd love to see a post on what exactly your thoughts are on the solo there are a few really interesting things going on and yu seem to nail it really well..It's a super emotional song and you got it down. thx a ton!

Thanks for the vids! Keep em coming! I always liked playing this one, so it's nice to see some leads, fills, etc. I'd love to see a link in the video section to all the recent vids you've done! I can't keep track, but it gives me much to work on as a guitarist, so for that I am grateful. Thank you.

"The only funeral you should ever try to interrupt is your own, and that should be a full-time job." -Kinky Friedman

So the Dm, F, Bb & C are all the same notes and the others have only minor differences that generally highlight the chord tones.

I'm not even touching on chromatics though there's a bunch of possibilities.

The scale over the Bo7 is what I settled on but I've messed around with a bunch of different looks. I'm certainly not saying my thinking here is THE deal with this. As a matter of fact it's more from my own ear than any palpable study of jg's approach.

I'm doing a decent amount of bending from a half step back of the targeted tone. Gives a nice mournful flavor.

The end of the first verse to beginning of the 2nd I'm bending the C note to a C# over the A7, thus the 3rd of A, and then bending another half step for a whole step bend to begin the 2nd verse to the D note for the Dm.

In case you didn't catch it my timing in the second verse from the Bb to the A is a beat or so early. And the tempo is a bit rushed, hell from just about right off the bat - I think I get to the Bo7 a hair early. Oh well.

Good thing I bought that metronome that I haven't used yet about a month ago.

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astroman99 wrote:Bill, nice job , I think your singing has gone up a notch, good job, nice fretborad, what kind of guitar is that...nice humbuckers baby!!!

Thanks. Really? tehe. Except for the first couple of lines and I sorta blow the end a bit I thought I did pretty well. For me. For me the whole singing thing requires me to be constantly on top of it so if I stray to thinking about the gitbox I could get into trouble.

It's a Schecter C-1 Classic 'vine of life inlay'. I really like this thing. Nice variety of sound and great sustain.

Please though, don't take this the wrong way, because I know you are a farrrrr superior guitar player to me, and you know a hell of a lot more about jerry's playing style than i probably will in YEEEARS. i'm asking this more of as a student than anything else...

You gave us a whole rainbow of different modal scales for the verse leads... but my question is this: I don't understand why the leads for the different chords would be switching modes so much. I am especially thrown by the phrygian... this song doesn't really have any spanish sounding parts to it. Am I reading your post wrong or something?